"After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his executioners expected to go to heaven, Hatuey chose the other"

-- Kathy Acker

#Choices Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Gathering Quotes

“In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.”
“I try to do the right thing.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“Go ahead, do something impossible.”
“You think that you can hide; you think you can lay low? I'll roll up on your ***** like Hawaii 5-0!”
“I have always believed that hair is a very sure index of character.”

Source : Katharine Tynan (1913). “Twenty-five Years: Reminiscences”
“In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose...”
“Fellow senators balked at punishing Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York though he was caught in a series of transactions that earned him the label "Senator Sleaze." D'Amato explained their reluctance as he defended his own behavior. "There but for the grace of God go most of my colleagues," he said.”
“We became more familiar with [Bernard Leach], and with this familiarity came, I wouldn't say contempt, but certainly an awareness that everything that he said was not necessarily what we were thinking. That doesn't mean it was wrong, but Leach was a person out of a different generation.”

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